Results, Ridings & Candidates

Trois-Rivières

2008 Results

TROIS-RIVIÈRES
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 1:11 AM EST		179/179 polls
LIB	Danielle St-Amand	9,129	40.10	Elected
PQ	Yves St-Pierre	8,169	35.88
ADQ	Sébastien Proulx	4,241	18.63
QS	Alex Noël	714	3.14
GRN	Louis Lacroix	515	2.26

All results are unofficial until final ballot counts are verified by Elections Quebec.

View these results in the interactive map »

Candidates:

NAME	PARTY
Lacroix, Louis	Green Party of Québec
Noël, Alex	Québec Solidaire
Proulx, Sébastien	Action Démocratique du Québec
St-Amand, Danielle	Quebec Liberal Party
St-Pierre, Yves	Parti Québécois

Riding profile: Trois-Rivières is located on the northern shore of the St. Lawrence River, halfway between Montreal and Quebec City. It is contains much of the city of Trois-Rivières located west of the St-Maurice River.

Riding map: From Elections Quebec: Trois-Rivières (PDF) (Acrobat Reader required - download free Acrobat Reader.)

Riding history: The riding was first created in 1792, with only a minor change in the 1992 redistribution.

Political history: 1970, 1973 - LIB 1976, 1981 - PQ 1985 byelection, 1985, 1989 - LIB 1994, 1998 - PQ 2003 - LIB 2007 - ADQ

1995 sovereignty referendum: Yes - 55.64 per cent; No - 44.36 per cent

Language Breakdown: English: 1.4 per cent French: 97.0 per cent Other: 1.6 per cent Source: Statistics Canada 2001 census

1970, 1973	Liberal Guy Bacon won in 1970 and 1973.
1976, 1981	Parti Québécois's Denis Vaugeois defeated Liberal Bacon in 1976 and was re-elected in 1981. He was appointed minister of cultural affairs, February 1978; minister of communications, September 1979. Resigned as MNA on Jan. 31, 1985, after René Lévesque's statement that sovereignty should not be an issue in the next election.
June 3, 1985 byelection, 1985 and 1989	Liberal Paul Philibert defeated Parti Québécois's Jacques Lessard in the 1985 byelection and was re-elected in 1985 and 1989.
1994	Parti Québécois's Guy Julien defeated Philibert by 609 votes. He was appointed minister of agriculture, fisheries and food and minister responsible for Mauricie-Bois-Francs region, Jan. 29, 1996; minister of agriculture, fisheries and food and minister responsible for Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec regions, Nov. 19, 1997; minister of agriculture, fisheries and food and minister responsible for Mauricie region, March 4, 1998.
1998	Julien defeated Liberal Guy Leblanc by 1,523 votes. He was appointed minister responsible for the Mauricie region, March 4, 1998; minister for industry and trade, Dec. 15, 1998 to March 8, 2001; minister of revenue, March 8, 2001.
2003	Liberal André Gabias defeated Julien by 880 votes.
2007	Action Démocratique du Québéc's Sébastien Proulx defeated Liberal André Gabias.

TROIS-RIVIÈRES
Party	Candidate	Votes	Vote Share (%)	Status
Updated: Mar. 27, 2007 1:37 AM EDT	165/165 polls
ADQ	Sébastien Proulx	10,247	37.20	Elected
LIB	André Gabias	7,862	28.54
PQ	Jean-Pierre Adam	7,672	27.85
QS	André Lemay	907	3.29
GRN	Louis Lacroix	739	2.68
IND	Stéphan Vincent	121	0.44

Overall Results

Overall Election Results
Party	Elected	Leading	Total	Vote Share (%)
Updated: Dec. 9, 2008, 1:11 AM EST
LIB	66	0	66	42.06
PQ	51	0	51	35.15
ADQ	7	0	7	16.35
QS	1	0	1	3.80
GRN	0	0	0	2.19
OTH	0	0	0	0.45

Choose a format to view results for all ridings and parties:

Launch interactive map Results tables

All results are unofficial until final ballot counts are verified by Elections Quebec.

My Riding & Riding Talk

Have your say about what's important in your own riding. Read profiles about your candidates, get riding-related information and join the debate.

Find My Riding

List All Ridings

Back

Change My Riding List All Ridings

Quebec Votes Headlines

Separatist-bashing in Ottawa may have helped PQ: While Stephen Harper toasted a federalist victory in the Quebec election, some sovereigntists suggested Tuesday they might have him to thank for their higher-than-expected score.
Charest says he's here to stay after majority win: Quebec Premier Jean Charest had barely finished lunch the day after his third straight election win and he already found himself defending his appetite to see the term through.
Is Ottawa in the cards for Dumont?: Just one day after Mario Dumont announced his plan to quit Quebec politics, federal Conservatives were envisioning the prospect of luring the one-time right-wing wonderkid to Ottawa.
Charest wins 3rd mandate in Quebec: Jean Charest's political gamble has paid off: Quebecers handed his Liberal party a majority Monday night.
PQ gains help Marois rebuild party from disastrous 2007 election: Less than two years removed from being reduced to the province's third party, Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois guided her troops back to Official Opposition status Monday.
Dumont to step down after ADQ defeat: Action Démocratique du Québec Leader Mario Dumont is resigning as head of the party he founded after suffering a crushing defeat in Monday's election.
Almost half of Quebec voters shunned polls: Elections Quebec is calling Monday's historically low voter turnout a catastrophe.
In Montreal, plus ça change...: The status quo prevailed on the Island of Montreal on Monday night, with virtually no change in the city's provincial political alignments except for a breakthrough win by Québec Solidaire.
QS's Amir Khadir prevails over PQ in Montreal's Mercier riding: Community activist and physician Amir Khadir has been elected in Montreal's Mercier riding, beating Parti Québécois incumbent Daniel Turp.
Liberals gain in Abitibi-Témiscamingue region: The Liberals have dented the Parti Québécois's hold on the four ridings in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region.

Quebec Votes Features